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Product Description: This thematic study of the work of Pedro Ruiz illustrates the varied techniques and artistic expressions of one of Latin Americaâs most important contemporary artists. With a focus on discovering the innovative and creative interpretations of the artist's views of nature and the human condition, this book ventures into spheres of style, book illustration, photography, scenery, costume design, and multidisciplinary projects...read more
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9789588306780 | Villegas Editores, August 1, 2012, cover price $80.95 | About this edition: This thematic study of the work of Pedro Ruiz illustrates the varied techniques and artistic expressions of one of Latin Americaâs most important contemporary artists.
Hardcover:
9789588306704 | Slp edition (Villegas Editores, April 1, 2012), cover price $90.95
Product Description: Exploring a wealth of incredible winged fauna, this fascinating compendium travels to the tropical setting of Colombia, where many different climates blend to encourage the development of habitats. The country's diverse landscapes are explored along with the rare beauty of its singular birds, showcasing their distinct plumage, colors, various sizes, songs, beaks, and wings...read more
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9789588306759, titled "Aves En Colombia / Birds In Colombia: En Colombia / In Colombia" | Slp edition (Villegas Editores, April 1, 2012), cover price $126.95 | About this edition: Exploring a wealth of incredible winged fauna, this fascinating compendium travels to the tropical setting of Colombia, where many different climates blend to encourage the development of habitats.
Hardcover:
9789588306650 | Pop edition (Villegas Editores, June 1, 2011), cover price $19.95
Product Description: Organized chronologically, the aerial photographs that make up this extraordinary collection chart the development of the capital of Colombia over a period of 50 years, from 1935 to 1985. The explosive growth of the city, both formally and informally, transformed it from a provincial town of only 300,000 to the hypnotic megacity it became by the end of the century, when its population had reached seven million...read more
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9789588306568 | Slp edition (Villegas Editores, June 1, 2011), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Organized chronologically, the aerial photographs that make up this extraordinary collection chart the development of the capital of Colombia over a period of 50 years, from 1935 to 1985.
Product Description: Beautiful photography complements authoritative and rigorous descriptions of Colombian orchids in this study of one of the countryâs richest natural resources. What quickly becomes apparent in the pages of this book is that one of the most notable traits of the orchidÂbesides its beauty, color, form, and sizeÂis its enormous variety...read more
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9789588306643 | Slp edition (Villegas Editores, April 1, 2011), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Beautiful photography complements authoritative and rigorous descriptions of Colombian orchids in this study of one of the countryâs richest natural resources.
Product Description: With a wealth of illustrations, photographs, drawings, and reproductions of the original engravings made to describe the local flora on the voyage, this thorough account is a description of, and a testament to, the expedition undertaken in 1783 by Spanish botanist and mathematician José Celestino Mutis...read more
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9789588306353 | 2 slp edition (Villegas Editores, January 1, 2011), cover price $150.00 | About this edition: With a wealth of illustrations, photographs, drawings, and reproductions of the original engravings made to describe the local flora on the voyage, this thorough account is a description of, and a testament to, the expedition undertaken in 1783 by Spanish botanist and mathematician José Celestino Mutis.
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9789588306407 | Slp edition (Villegas Editores, April 1, 2010), cover price $25.00
Product Description: Impressively thorough, this collection of works by Hugo Zapata illustrates the diversity of one of Latin Americaâs most unique artists and sculptors. Included among the hundreds of stunning photographs are articles and critiques from various decades that help contextualize his body of work...read more
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9789588306490 | Villegas Editores, April 1, 2010, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Impressively thorough, this collection of works by Hugo Zapata illustrates the diversity of one of Latin Americaâs most unique artists and sculptors.
Product Description: Highlighting Colombiaâs rich abundance of freshwater resources, this copiously illustrated reference explores the country's various rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and mountain glaciers. In addition to showcasing nature's beauty, this breathtaking book also encourages conservation and restoration...read more
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9789588306377 | Villegas Editores, April 1, 2010, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Highlighting Colombiaâs rich abundance of freshwater resources, this copiously illustrated reference explores the country's various rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and mountain glaciers.
Product Description: Exhaustive and copiously illustrated, this fundamental account of Armando Villegas’ work—from pictures and oil paintings to sculptures, murals, and collages—is the most complete compilation of his art. Recognized as one of the first abstract artists of the continent, his figurative work displays an unmistakable fondness for the pre-Colombian traditions of his native Peru, but his breadth of artistic mediums impedes defining him by a single form of expression, technique, or theme...read more
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9789588306162 | Villegas Editores, May 1, 2009, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Exhaustive and copiously illustrated, this fundamental account of Armando Villegas’ work—from pictures and oil paintings to sculptures, murals, and collages—is the most complete compilation of his art.
Product Description: Colombia's vast climatological diversity makes the existence of a large spectrum of countryside architecture a possibility. This book gathers different expressions of style and the relationship that is developed between landscape, climate, and architecture in Colombian countryside houses...read more
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9789588306124 | Ill edition (Villegas Editores, June 20, 2008), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Colombia's vast climatological diversity makes the existence of a large spectrum of countryside architecture a possibility.
Product Description: An in-depth study of Colombian architect Luis Restrepo, this collection brings together a selection of his constructions developed by between 1989 and 2007. In this innovative presentation of architectural works, each construction is thoroughly illustrated with both color photographs and reproductions of the blueprints, making it a true insight into Restrepoâs genius...read more
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9789588306063 | Villegas Editores, July 1, 2008, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: An in-depth study of Colombian architect Luis Restrepo, this collection brings together a selection of his constructions developed by between 1989 and 2007.
Product Description: Bringing together more than 500 years of creativity with images of multiple artifacts made from different materialsâincluding wood, clay, metals, fibers, stone, leather, and seedsâthis book brings Colombia's immensely rich history of crafts to life...read more
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9789589138694 | Villegas Editores, September 1, 2007, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Bringing together more than 500 years of creativity with images of multiple artifacts made from different materialsâincluding wood, clay, metals, fibers, stone, leather, and seedsâthis book brings Colombia's immensely rich history of crafts to life.
Product Description: Taking advantage of the extraordinary camera built specifically for Villegas Editoresâone that rotates on its axis and takes 360-degree, panoramic picturesâthis book gives readers an inside look at 46 of the most recognized buildings and structures in Bogota, in a never-before-seen way...read more
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9789588156828 | Villegas Editores, June 14, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Taking advantage of the extraordinary camera built specifically for Villegas Editoresâone that rotates on its axis and takes 360-degree, panoramic picturesâthis book gives readers an inside look at 46 of the most recognized buildings and structures in Bogota, in a never-before-seen way.
Product Description: The exclusive and expansive diversity of Colombia is vividly represented in the 51 natural parks that make up the parks system of the country. This book covers all the parks and their landscapes, exhibiting them one-by-one in more than 700 photographs that have been carefully selected and accompanied with text, information charts, and maps...read more
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9789588156880 | Villegas Editores, June 1, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The exclusive and expansive diversity of Colombia is vividly represented in the 51 natural parks that make up the parks system of the country.
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9789588156842 | Villegas Editores, June 1, 2007, cover price $65.00
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9789588156897 | Slp edition (Villegas Editores, June 1, 2007), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Composed of five unique volumes that pay homage to the memory, life, and work of Alberto Lleras, a collection touches upon the topics that had a central role in the life of one of Colombia's greatest thinkers.
Product Description: With the help of a camera designed specifically for Villegas Editores, this book invites readers into an infinite world of sensory experiences while exploring Colombia through panoramic, 360-degree photographs. This passionate journey through 29 Colombian localesâincluding Barichara, Cartagena, Leticia, and Tunjaâis accompanied by informative text that places the images in a historical context...read more
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9789588156859 | Villegas Editores, May 28, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: With the help of a camera designed specifically for Villegas Editores, this book invites readers into an infinite world of sensory experiences while exploring Colombia through panoramic, 360-degree photographs.
Product Description: With a specially designed camera built specifically for Villegas Editores, this book invites readers into an infinite world of sensory experiences while exploring Colombia through panoramic, 360-degree photographs. This passionate journey through 29 Colombian locales is accompanied by informative text that places the images in a historical context...read more
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9789588156866 | Villegas Editores, May 28, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: With a specially designed camera built specifically for Villegas Editores, this book invites readers into an infinite world of sensory experiences while exploring Colombia through panoramic, 360-degree photographs.
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9789588156804 | Villegas Editores, April 30, 2007, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: A thorough exploration of a magical and relatively unknown country portrays Guatemala as the colorful, diverse land that it is, featuring nearly 300 photographs that accompany stories bursting with local flavor.
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9789589138984 | Villegas Editores, June 30, 2006, cover price $65.00
Product Description: The largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once. Looking through Cristobal von Rothkirk's photographic eye, here is all of Bogota-the sophisticated Hispanic city, the South American captial, the complex of urban cultures tattooed with signs of international pop culture...read more
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9789588156538 | Villegas Editores, October 31, 2004, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The largest city in South America north of Rio, Bogota is an urban environment of more than 7 million inhabitants; like other metropolitan areas, Bogota is many cities at once.
Product Description: The exquisite still lifes of Alberto Iriarte (1920-1993), known as Mefisto, have remained Colombia's best kept artistic secret of the 20th century, despite having been exhibited in Paris, Barranquilla, and Bogotá. Nonetheless, Colombian art history cannot fail to honor Mefisto as one of its most influential painters...read more
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9789588160702 | Villegas Editores, June 30, 2004, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The exquisite still lifes of Alberto Iriarte (1920-1993), known as Mefisto, have remained Colombia's best kept artistic secret of the 20th century, despite having been exhibited in Paris, Barranquilla, and Bogotá.
Product Description: Enrique Grau was part of a generation that began to renovate the country's artistic life in the mid-20th century. Exuberant and with a strong Latin American sensibility, Grau found expression in an astonishingly wide range of media: painting, sculpture, drawing, engraving, collage, silk-screen, lithography, woodcuts, stage and costume design, cinema, and murals...read more
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9789588156392 | Villegas Editores, April 1, 2004, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Enrique Grau was part of a generation that began to renovate the country's artistic life in the mid-20th century.
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